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Bring back all the features under the Community License!

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I'm a community license user (at a nonprofit organization with no money to spend on software tools), and I can say that I have no need for the features that are now restricted to the pro license. The community license is fine, and a lot of the responses in this thread just seem like whining from people who are only thinking about themselves and don't understand how to run a business. (And would you knock it off with the emotional manipulation? Seriously!) The bigger problem is that the community license is currently broken since there hasn't been a release in 120 days. I sure hope that's not because the developer has fallen into depression from reading all the complainers in this topic...

It's pretty clear that there's a bunch of people who would buy the software at $50 but can't at $150. But would cutting the price by 66% triple the customer base? Probably not. Maybe the developer will figure out a semi-pro feature set that wouldn't cannibalize his pro revenue, but in any case when you compare to some of Redgate's SSMS Plugins that are between $300 and $500 per license, $150 looks like a steal. Personally, I like licensing models similar to Atlassian's and GitKraken that treat nonprofits, EDUs, and startups as charity cases, but that's a self-serving preference, and might not make any sense for software as highly specialized as this. (Regardless, I would appreciate if the SSMSBoost license discount for EDUs and nonprofits was published on the website somewhere.)

It's definitely a fair criticism to say the developer could be more active on the forums, though. I'm sure keeping a community manager on retainer for when you go on vacation isn't cheap either.
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